RSS Widget Prevents Home Page From Working

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#1

Oct 12, 2009, 09:13 PM

OttO

20 posts · Oct 2009

Hello,

I've spent hours on this so now I'm posting my first plea for help.

I was trying to fix a problem in my far right sidebar over the weekend. I have solid borders between each widget but on some of the widgets, I had eliminated the borders [border-bottom: 0px] because I wanted images to be 'together' with their corresponding RSS feeds (I had four sets of images/feeds). But I noticed that instead of erasing the borders it was stacking the borders up at the bottom of the sidebar and it was also padding the widgets in a way that as you scrolled down the page, the widgets in the far right side bar were drifting further and further to the right. So I started playing with this to try and fix it.

Somewhere I developed a problem and the home page 'disappeared' (all other pages where the right side bar is of loaded just fine). If I shut off the right sidebar then the home page loaded; activating the right side bar disabled the home page again.

So I tried to undo my code changes but that didn't fix it. I updated the theme but that didn't fix it. I tore down and rebuilt the entire sidebar but that didn't fix it. And I scoured this forum but couldn't find anything to help on this. So through process of elimination I figured out that for some reason the RSS widgets (the standard RSS widgets) themselves 'seemed' to be causing the problem. First I eliminated one (which left me with three) and it worked. But by this morning it wasn't working again. So I eliminated another one and it worked. By tonight it was down again. So I eliminated another one (leaving me with just one). I removed them, put in some new ones and mixed them up but nothing seemed to work.

I'm stumped. I have 3.4.4 and am using Firefox 3.5 (but have also tried on IE - 6, I believe -).

I love the theme (I think it's the gold standard of themes, especially for those of us cutting our teeth but wanting some flexibility). I'm in a financial black hole at the moment but intend on donating something the first chance I get. Thanks for your help.

#2

Oct 13, 2009, 06:01 AM

juggledad

22,601 posts · Mar 2009

OSX 10.10.1 WP 4.x Atahualpa(all) Safari, Firefox, Chrome

1) download a new copy of the theme to your computer (you can get it here http://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?p=81)
2) unzip it on your computer
3) Run FTP and connect to your site, navagating to the themes folder
4) download teh current Atahualpa folder if you want to save any code changes you did
5) upload the new copy replacing the old copy

You should now be back to the start witht ehcode. - this will not change any option settings you made INCLUDING any changes to Above/Below and 'THE LOOP' in 'Style & edit CENTER COLUMN'

Thanks for the suggestion. I followed your instructions but it doesn't seem to have had any impact. I tried adding another RSS widget to the right sidebar and the home page went away.

I see another new and interesting issue - a post shows up on the home page but when you click on it, the page does not display any part of the post from the title to the tags. All that is on the screen is "Reply Here" and a comment box.

#4

Oct 14, 2009, 06:19 AM

juggledad

22,601 posts · Mar 2009

OSX 10.10.1 WP 4.x Atahualpa(all) Safari, Firefox, Chrome

switch to the default theme and see if you can see your post. If you can't, you may have a database issue. You do have a backup...right?

Here is what is in the Loop (see below), I think the first lines were revised recently (trying to jar my memory on this) according to some instructions I read on this forum, but other than that it should be intact.

FYI: My set up is to have all articles posted to the center column EXCEPT for one category which gets posted to a widget in the Inner Right sidebar. It's that category that is having the problem. The widget displays the title and excerpt as it should but clicking on the link takes you to the post's page with no post (or headline) displayed.

Everything in this regard seems back to normal, all posts are showing up again.

Thank you!!

Now I still need to figure out why it seems that the RSS widgets in my far right sidebar are causing me problems. I just added one and it works. I added a second one and now my home page disappeared again. I removed it and the home page is back.

(I do plan to donate a few bucks tonight or tomorrow, this help is invaluable)

#16

Oct 15, 2009, 11:11 AM

OttO

20 posts · Oct 2009

Okay, I'm presenting this here too in case it's tied to these other issues.

On my home page, the most recent post is showing up as a full post and all of the others are showing up as excerpt posts, even though I have the options set to "Show excerpts" on HOME page and then the "Show the first X posts on HOME page as full posts?" set to "6". This remains the same no matter what number I put in. AND if I change the home page option to "Full Posts" then my home page is completely disabled again!

I'm almost positive that my problems have something to do with the standard RSS Widget. After pulling my hair out for a while, I forgot about another RSS Widget I had in the Inner Right sidebar. I removed that and the site is back up again. I put it back in place and the home page disappeared. Removed it again and the home page came back.

So now I have zero RSS widgets on my site. I really like to have them. Any suggestions? I went from five to zero.

#18

Oct 15, 2009, 08:01 PM

OttO

20 posts · Oct 2009

Donation made! Thanks for the help and the theme!

#19

Oct 16, 2009, 06:32 AM

juggledad

22,601 posts · Mar 2009

OSX 10.10.1 WP 4.x Atahualpa(all) Safari, Firefox, Chrome

Hmmm, I just added two RSS widgets and it's fine are you using the standard RSS widget?